In time for the holidays, the Brown Alumni Magazine’s second annual gift guide—a sampling of products designed and made by alumni. They’re a heartening reminder that work can be a passionate endeavor, and that labor really can be love.

Four alumnae—each more than 100 years old—reflect on life for women at Brown during the Roaring Twenties and describe full journey they’ve been on ever since.

A post-college coming-of-age tale from Sarah Shun-lien Bynum ’95.

Writing classes can be deadly, and in this case that’s the literal truth.

Improv artist Jon Mahone ’99, ’04 MAT channels the ghosts of Charlie Chaplin and Richard Pryor.

To learn how troops are trained for Iraq, filmmaker Tony Gerber ’86 was embedded with an Army unit—at a simulated Iraqi village in California.

With her sophisticated sportswear, Lyn Devon ’02 aims to make women feel comfortable, confident, and beautiful.

Last year men’s basketball finished second in the Ivy League. Can a new coach take them to first?

The advice at this year’s Opening Convocation? Enjoy the intellectual ride.

After a year out with a leg injury, women’s soccer goalie Brenna Hogue ’10 is back. So is the team.

In the recession ahead, Brown's priorities will be financial aid, academics, research--and yes, growth.

The first democratically elected female president on the African continent visits Brown.

Barney Frank on deregulation and trickle-down economics.

While living in Shanghai, a writer wondered where she’d ever feel at home.

How to protect precious items from you and me.

The Bears celebrated defeating Harvard, 24–22, by stopping a Crimson two-point conversion with 1:03 remaining.

Yaya DaCosta '04 made her New York stage debut this fall.

A pair of legal scholars spar about the constitutional ramifications of the New Deal.

New Yorker staff writer Philip Gourevitch visited the Watson Institute to promote his new book, Standard Operating Procedure.

Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was not the only national president to visit Brown this fall. Leonel Fernandez,president of the Dominican Republic, sat down with associate professor of history James Green, and former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos Escobar.

The bronze statue of Caesar Augustus lost his right arm to the hurricane of 1938. This fall, an unidentified orthopedically minded visitor gave him a new limb.

The Ginger Ninjas pedalled into Providence with their instruments loaded onto their bikes. Then they invited the audience to help power the show.

New buildings and infrastructure improvements bring lots of construction workers to campus, so officials have seen fit to remind them of how to behave.

Meet the secret service agent who went with Nixon to China. PAUL KELLY '66

When Lydia Boddie-Rice '76 took up rowing, she noticed that most of the crews were white. She set out to change that.

In 1908 the John Hay Library was still an architect's English Renaissance dream and a curiosity for streetcar riders.

Donald E. Creamer '47 believes that today’s ads are garbage and that, thanks to the TV-series Mad Men, yesterday's ad men and women are misunderstood.

A farewell to Rhett Jones ’72 AM, ’76 PhD.

Obituaries from the November/December 2008 issue.